Former Low Bassist Zak Sally Sells Low Album Cover Painting on eBay

Zak Sally spent 12 years as the bassist for Minnesota slowcore giants Low. Since leaving that band he has focused on his career as a cartoonist and publisher. Last year, though, Sally recorded a solo album called Fear of Song. Sally wrote, played, and sang everything on the album himself. On July 22, he'll release the album via his own La Mano 21 publishing house. The CD will be a signed and limited edition affair, with all the packaging done by hand. It sounds very cool.

But putting out albums costs money. So Sally is taking to eBay to sell a painting that should be familiar to fans of his old band.

That painting was used as the cover of Low's 2005 album The Great Destroyer. The reserve for the painting is set at $1,200, the amount it'll cost Sally to release the album. The painting went on sale today, July 8, and the auction ends one week later, on July 15.

Here's how Sally describes the painting in an email: "It's a biggish 24" x 13" image area (approximately) watercolor on banged-up wood. It was on my kid's wall for a while, so the sun faded it a bit, and therefore it looks a good deal less color saturated than the final art (also because we messed with it in photoshop), but hey, that's how it goes."